X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18584.22979.626733.30138@gepard2.akutech-local.de> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 15:46:43 +0200 From: Ralf Fassel To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: environment variables derived from TMPDIR In-Reply-To: <18584.18424.809720.530028@gepard2.akutech-local.de> References: <18584.12950.943391.75971@gepard2.akutech-local.de> <4898409F.1010306@byu.net> <18584.18424.809720.530028@gepard2.akutech-local.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com * Ralf Fassel | | Does it work to pass the contents of the file on stdin instead of | | the file name as an argument? | | | | external_program < "$TMPFILE" | | Duh. This should work in 95% of the cases. In the other cases file | size of TMPFILE is involved, so redirection would not work as-is. Turns out that in most cases where a TMPFILE is required, it is actually two temp files, and the temp file is the second input for the program in question (stdin is the first). So I guess we will change all the scripts to use a different env-Variable when constructing the temp file name, and set that variable on startup in the base-shell. R' -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/